Paper Title
Managing E-Waste – Issues and Challenges
Abstract
The electronic industry is the world‟s largest and fastest growing manufacturing industry. It has become leverage
to the socio - economic and technological growth of a developing society. The consequence of its consumer oriented growth
combined with rapid product obsolescence and technological advances are a new environmental challenge - the growing
menace of “Electronics Waste” or “e waste” that consists of obsolete electronic devices. The current practices of e-waste
management in India suffers a number of disadvantages like inadequate legislation , difficulty in inventorisation, health
hazards due to informal recycling, poor awareness and reluctance on part of the corporate to address the critical issues. The
impacts are intense when toxic materials enter the waste stream with no special precautions, creates adverse effects on the
environment and human health and when economically valuable materials are dumped resources are wasted or unhealthy
conditions are developed during the informal recycling. Current article gathers the current scenario of E waste generation, data
on components and hazardous substances of e-waste that are creating environmental pollution and human exposure to these
chemicals, resulting adverse effects due to recycling, incineration and landfill disposal of e-waste.
Key words - E-waste, toxics, health hazard, impacts and management.